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Across the country Republicans are trying their damndest to change our education system. And for the worse. 

From DeSantis’ attack on African American AP studies to Kansas legislators arguing that parents have the right to save their kids from public school’s “sexualized woke agenda”, education is on the chopping block. 

This worries me deeply. 

Not only because I’m a mom of two young kids but because this attack on our education is a form of oppression that we’ve seen time and time again. 

This is not new.

Education is the battlefield for many issues; desegregation, LGBTQIA rights, critical race theory, ethnic studies, mask/vaccine mandates, school shootings, just to name a few. It is not a coincidence that public education is being choked to death with school vouchers, mass underfunding, watered-down American history, and “Don’t Say Gay” laws.

“It was not fortuitous that education became embroiled in this conflict. Education is one of the vital tools the Negro needs in order to advance. And yet it has been denied him by devises of segregation and manipulations with quality.” 

- Martin Luther King Jr. in his acceptance of the John Dewey Award from the United Federation of Teachers.

What can we do to combat this next fight for education? 

1. “All politics is local.” – Research the proposed education bills by your representatives. Find out what books are being banned in your school divisions. 
2. “Your vote. Your voice.” – Yes, voting matters. And yes, sometimes the candidate that wins, isn’t the candidate you wanted. But that doesn’t mean you can’t harass them, I mean call them, write to them, or sign a petition or two around these issues.
3. “Chip in.” – In your research, you might come across the organizations fighting to keep the Black Lives Matter movement in African American Studies, fighting to keep transgender students safe, fighting to keep critical race theory, and fighting to fund our schools at the level they should be. If you find those organizations, LIFT THEM UP and chip in.

We can put up a good fight for education. But only together. 

A progressive mom’s musings,

Edil Mari De Los Reyes

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